I’m thinking that someone could radically misinterpret the headline, because it seems to be posed as a stand-alone question. That makes it “sound” abrupt and mocking.
The “ tone” seems sneering, or challenging.
But it wasn’t originally composed as an insolent challenge. It was composed as an honest question in a series of questions.
It might help if you consider that the answer which follows, can be summarized as “NO”.
Yours is not an honest question.